Fifty years ago, after the histrionic sixth game of the World Series at Fenway Park, Peter Gammons wrote perhaps the most lyrical prose ever penned about a baseball game. His lead, in the Boston Globe, included a phrase that feels fitting in the aftermath of the breathless 2025 World Series: the wearing off of the numbness.

Nielsen fast-nationals revealed that 25.45 million viewers tuned into Fox for the decisive World Series game, leading to a total average of 25.98 million across all of Fox Sports’ platforms, marking the largest audience for MLB since the Astros-Dodgers Game 7 in 2017. That series brought in 28.24 million people.

Shohei Ohtani is the Dodgers' starting pitcher in the decisive Game 7 on Saturday in Toronto, while 41-year-old Max Scherzer takes the mound for the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

For Game 7 of the World Series, there will be two singers for the national anthems. Pia Toscano will perform the U.S. national anthem, while Noah Reid will sing the Canadian national anthem, baseball reporter Jessica Kleinschmidt. Game 7 of the 2025 World Series is set to begin on Saturday, November 1 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

1. 1975: Reds over Red Sox The perfect World Series, complete with five one-run games and the most famous extra-inning game in World Series history, Game 6, which ended with Carlton Fisk's down-the-line blast. Game 7 is one of the more underrated games in World Series history.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Nearly 26 million viewers tuned in for Game 7 of the baseball World Series, the most since 2017, broadcaster Fox said on Monday after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in a dramatic finale.

Both of these late-inning homers landed in almost the same spot and were caught by two Blue Jays fans who just happened to be a father-son duo.

What a game. What a World Series. What a season. The 2,477th game of the 2025 season, including playoffs -- five more than any other year in history -- delivered a classic.